Remote AI Solutions Engineer — Client-Facing

Elios, Inc.; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elios, Inc. is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) for remote work from the Houston area. You will engage with clients, understand their workflows, and lead AI-powered software deliveries across production environments.

Moderate travel is expected for kickoff, onsite delivery, workshops, and meetings in Houston and beyond. The role emphasizes hands-on software engineering, experience delivering production-grade systems, and ability to explain technical choices to executives.

Qualifications

• Consulting experience delivering technical work for external clients is required.
• Several years of hands-on software engineering, including substantial experience coding without AI assistance.
• Experience shipping and supporting production software.
• Hands-on deployment experience with at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Houston-area residency and willingness to travel moderately for client work.

Responsibilities

• Understand client workflows, define the problem, and agree on success criteria.
• Support discovery and sales conversations. Explain business value, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to engineers, business stakeholders, and CEOs.
• Own your commitments, communicate progress, and raise delivery risks early.
• Build AI-powered software, agents, and integrations in real client environments.
• Take solutions from proof of concept through production, with appropriate testing, evaluations, security, access controls, observability, and operational handoff.
• Deploy to the cloud the client uses, drawing on hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Read, review, debug, and maintain the code you ship, including code generated by AI.
• Use agentic coding tools daily while owning architecture, implementation choices, and quality.
• Work effectively with client teams and our colleagues, and transfer knowledge throughout delivery.
• Adapt to unfamiliar codebases, languages, and constraints. Know when to investigate, ask for help, or challenge an approach.

Skills

Software Engineering

Job description

Elios, Inc. is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) for remote work from the Houston area. You will engage with clients, understand their workflows, and lead AI-powered software deliveries across production environments.

Moderate travel is expected for kickoff, onsite delivery, workshops, and meetings in Houston and beyond. The role emphasizes hands-on software engineering, experience delivering production-grade systems, and ability to explain technical choices to executives.